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Intensified specimen collection to improve tuberculosis diagnosis in children from Rural South Africa, an observational study

BACKGROUND: In drug-resistant TB settings, specimen collection is critical for drug-susceptibility testing (DST). This observational study included multiple specimen types collected from pediatric TB suspects with the aim to determine diagnostic yield and inform clinical practice in children with dr...

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Autores principales: Thomas, Tania A, Heysell, Scott K, Moodley, Prashini, Montreuil, Romualde, Ha, Xia, Friedland, Gerald, Bamber, Sheila A, Moll, Anthony P, Gandhi, Neel, Brant, William E, Sturm, Willem, Shah, Sarita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3890632/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24400822
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-14-11